Indeed if you will needs believe that you shall be saved without Conversion, then you believe a falsehood: and if I should preach that to you, I should preach a lie: this were not to believe God, but the Devil and your own deceitful hearts. God hath his promise of Life, and the Devil hath his promise of Life: Gods promise is, [Return and Live] The Devils promise is, [you shall live whether you turn or not] The word of God is as I have showed you. [Except ye be converted and become as little children, ye cannot enter into the Kingdom of heaven, Matth. 18.3. Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God, John 3.3, 5. Without holiness none shall see God, Hebrews 12.14.] The Devils word is, [You may be saved without being born again and Converted: you may do well enough without being holy; God doth but ⟨p. 80⟩frighten you; he is more merciful then to do as he saith: he will be better to you then his word.] And alas, the greatest part of the world believe this word of the Devil, before the word of God; just as our first sin and misery came into the world. God said to our first parents, [If ye eat ye shall Die] And the Devil contradicteth him, and saith, [Ye shall not Die] and the woman believed the Devil before God. So now the Lord saith [Turn or Die.] And the Devil saith, [You shall not die, if you do but cry God mercy at last, and give over the acts of sin when you can practise it no longer.] And this is the word that the world believes. O heinous wickedness to believe the Devil before God!
Indeed if you will needs believe that you shall be saved without Conversion, then you believe a falshood: and if I should preach that to you, I should preach a lie: this were not to believe God, but the Devil and your own deceitful hearts. God hath his promise of Life, and the Devil hath his promise of Life: Gods promise is, [Return and Live] The Devils promise is, [you shall live whether you turn or not] The word of God is as I have shewed you. [Except ye be converted and become as little children, ye cannot enter into the Kingdom of heaven, Matth. 18.3. Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God, John 3.3, 5. Without holiness none shall see God, Hebrews 12.14.] The Devils word is, [You may be saved without being born again and Converted: you may do well enough without being holy; God doth but ⟨p. 80⟩frighten you; he is more merciful then to do as he saith: he will be better to you then his word.] And alas, the greatest part of the world believe this word of the Devil, before the word of God; just as our first sin and misery came into the world. God said to our first parents, [If ye eat ye shall Die] And the Devil contradicteth him, and saith, [Ye shall not Die] and the woman believed the Devil before God. So now the Lord saith [Turn or Die.] And the Devil saith, [You shall not die, if you do but cry God mercy at last, and give over the acts of sin when you can practise it no longer.] And this is the word that the world believes. O hainous wickedness to believe the Devil before God!
